Monotype Crawdaunt (Water)

[Conflux]

[SET]
name: Choice Band (Water)
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Crabhammer
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Aqua Jet
item: Choice Band
ability: Adaptability
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band combined with Adaptability makes Crawdaunt an insanely powerful wallbreaker. Knock Off is its primary STAB move and provides useful utility in removing the foe's item. Close Combat hits Ferrothorn for more damage. Aqua Jet provides priority to make up for Crawdaunt's low Speed. Crawdaunt should be used to break holes early-game and pave the way for its teammates to win the game. Its Speed and bulk are pretty low, so it should generally be brought in on slower Pokemon and fire off its powerful attacks. Bringing Crawdaunt in via double switching or pivot moves is an effective way of applying pressure on the opponent, since very few Pokemon appreciate switching in on it. Crawdaunt can even clean up on its own with Aqua Jet if the opposing team has been weakened enough.

Pelipper can set up rain to boost Crawdaunt's Crabhammer and Aqua Jet. It can also pivot with U-turn to give Crawdaunt safe switches into the field. Rotom-W can pivot as well with Volt Switch and can also cripple the opposing Pokemon with Thunder Wave. Toxapex is an amazing teammate because it covers many of Crawdaunt's weaknesses and is also a great pivot in general thanks to its amazing bulk and Regenerator. In addition, it can set up Toxic Spikes to cripple the opposing team for Crawdaunt. Seismitoad is immune to Electric-type attacks that threaten Crawdaunt and can set up Stealth Rock to chip away at the opposing team. Araquanid has access to Sticky Web to slow down the opposing team, making Crawdaunt even more threatening to deal with. Gyarados works well as a teammate because it can take advantage of Crawdaunt's wallbreaking and sweep late-game. Gyarados is also a huge threat to Grass-types with its Max Airstream.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Confluxx, 408641]]
- Water analysis by: [[Confluxx, 408641]]
- Quality checked by: [[Kev, 314540]] [izaya, 311872]]
- Grammar checked by: [[deetah, 297659]]

 

[Kev]

Explaining Crambhammer seems kinda unnecessary. For Rotom-W you can add that it can cripple opponents by paralyzing them. Besides this, looks good QC 1/2

 

[Izaya]

- Mentioning Crawdaunt's Dynamax moves isn't wrong per se, but there are so many other better abusers of it on Water that it feels like we're just spreading misinformation by including it here. So I'd remove the Max Knuckle bit.
- Can remove the Adaptability line. You say that it removes the need for running other coverage but Close Combat is on the set. You mention Adaptability in the first line anyway.
- I'd make Pelipper the first mention in the second paragraph since Crawdaunt is primarily used on rain teams. With that, emphasize more on the benefit of rain to Crawdaunt because it can now essentially wallbreak just with its insanely strong Choice Band- and rain-boosted Aqua Jet.
- Along with Gyarados you can also mention how other Crawdaunt works well with other rain abusers like Barraskewda and Dracovish to absolutely overwhelm the other team offensively.

Good work, 2/2

 

[deetah]

Add Remove Comments (AC) = Add Comma (RC) = Remove Comma
Please address the one comment I made and then this should be good to go.

GP 1/1

Crawdaunt

[SET]
name: Choice Band (Water)
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Crabhammer
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Aqua Jet
item: Choice Band
ability: Adaptability
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band combined with Adaptability makes Crawdaunt an insanely powerful wallbreaker. Knock Off is its primary STAB move and provides useful utility in removing the opponent's foe's item. Close Combat hits Ferrothorn for more damage. Aqua Jet provides priority to make up for Crawdaunt's low Speed. Crawdaunt should be used to break holes early-game and pave the way for its teammates to win the game. Its Speed and bulk are pretty low, (AC) so it should generally be brought in on slower Pokemon and abuse fire off its powerful attacks. Bringing Crawdaunt in via double switching or pivot moves is an effective way of applying pressure on the opponent, (AC) since very few Pokemon appreciate switching in on it. Crawdaunt can even clean up on its own with Aqua Jet if the opposing team has been weakened enough.

Pelipper can set up rain to boost Crawdaunt's Crabhammer and Aqua Jet, making its (Looks like you forgot to finish this sentence?...) It can also pivot with U-Turn U-turn to give Crawdaunt safe switch-ins switches into the field. Rotom-W can pivot as well with Volt Switch, (RC) and can also cripple opponents the opposing Pokemon with Thunder Wave. Toxapex is an amazing teammate because it covers many of Crawdaunt's weaknesses and is also a great pivot in general thanks to its amazing bulk and Regenerator. In addition, (AC) it can set up Toxic Spikes to cripple the opposing team for Crawdaunt. Seismitoad is immune to Electric-type attacks that threaten Crawdaunt and can set up Stealth Rock to chip away at the opposing team. Araquanid has access to Sticky Web to slow down the opposing team, making Crawdaunt even more threatening to deal with. Gyarados works well as a teammate because it can take advantage of Crawdaunt's wallbreaking and sweep late-game. Gyarados is also a huge threat to Grass-types with its Max Airstream.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Confluxx, 408641]]
- Water analysis by: [[Confluxx, 408641]]
- Quality checked by: [[Kev, 314540]] [izaya, 311872]]
- Grammar checked by:

 

[Conflux]

Ready for upload.

 

[Moosical]

Uploaded but deleted the last sentence of the second paragraph.